Do you know of Crandall ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Crandall. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Crandall.
Our sources for Crandall (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Crandall other than they indicate that Crandall would be found somewhere in Park County, Wyoming.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1909 and closed in 1928.
This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.
Communities Also Named Crandall ...
We found ten communities that share the name Crandall.
Within Wyoming, the name Crandall is unique.
Beyond Wyoming, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these ten communities, nine are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Florida
- Nassau County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Crandall [Nassau County].
- Georgia
- Murray County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Crandall [Murray County].
- Illinois
- Tazewell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Crandall [Tazewell County].
- Indiana
- Harrison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Crandall [Harrison County].
- Kansas
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Crandall.
- Mississippi
- Clarke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Crandall [Clarke County].
- Ohio
- Lorain County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Crandall [Lorain County].
- South Dakota
- Day County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Crandall [Day County].
- Texas
- Kaufman County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Crandall [Kaufman County].
- Florida
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Crandall ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Crandall:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
North American Railroad Atlas - Mountain Plains
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2000
(Available from Amazon.com)
More Orphans in Park County ...
Can you help?
As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Park County.
| Canyon | |
| O'Donnell Spur | |
| Frannie Junction | |
| Riddle | |
| Ishawooa | |
| Valley | |
| Mammoth Hot Springs |
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Crandall could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |